In case you only need the deformation you should import the model to the Sculpt workspace and switch to Surface mode. You said you want to immitate some stone built structures. It’s common though to start models in the Sculpt workspace and to detail them inside the Paint workspace, after remeshing.

That’s the reason why 3DCoat doesn’t let you do this. Bringing models from the Paint Workspace to the Sculpt workspace to twist and bend them would quickly render UVs and existing textures worthless. That workspace has its own object tree > Vox Tree. The Sculpt workspace is intended for creating models from scratch and for introducing large form changes on raw models without UV’s. The whole paint workspace is there to colourize and surface-structure (=sculpt moderately) models which are mostly finished and which already have UV’s assigned. The Paint Objects Panel found in Windows/Popups controls their visibility. If you have various physically separate object inside your Rhino file and import into the 3DC Paint-Workspace they do remain separate. This Panel controls visibility of paint and surface structures and gives access to Blend modes – even across objects. On Layers: What 3DCoat inside its Paint-Workspace calls Layers is rather meant in the Photoshop sense. These all are actually purely 3DCoat specific issues – and better asked in their forums. Unless you have a very good reason to the contrary, use PerPixel painting as the resolution of the image is controlled by the texture map and is independent of your polygon density. Note that 3DCoat has two very different types of painting Per Pixel and PTEX.

If you have various bits that will be different materials, then you can assign material names in Rhino before exporting and create multiple UV sets in 3Dcoat Then select just the mesh and export that. Go here for a bit of discussion on mesh settings: Make sure “jagged seams” is UNchecked so that seams are nice with coincident verts. tweak your mesh settings to get a density that is suitable for your shapes but don’t go crazy with density as that just slows things down.

However a bit of pre-processing in Rhino will make your life a lot easier.įirstly you want to join everything that is one object into a polysurface. 3DCoat is excellent for painting models from Rhino.

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